Hidden cameras, pretending to be a member of the public helps me collect vital evidence

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Hello John,

I am an Investigator from Freedom for Animals. My job is to visit places that keep animals captive, and collect evidence of animal abuse, suffering and neglect.

I have visited many zoos and aquariums across the UK. I keep my identity a secret, posing as a member of the public or a volunteer. I use hidden cameras or pose as a photographer to openly take film and photos of animals and the ‘enclosures’ that keep them prisoner.

In all honesty, the job I do is both amazing and awful at the same time. I am proud to do what I do, to collect crucial evidence to support campaigns for animal freedom, and an end to their captivity. I can focus fully in the moment, determined to do the best job I can and to walk away with footage that will show what animals are going through.

But I also have moments where the reality of what I am photographing, or secretly recording, kicks in. When I catch the eyes of the animal, the individual that I see on the other side of the bars or the glass. That’s when I find my anger and sadness rising up inside me, when I have to see yet another individual desperate for their freedom.

But this is also what motivates me to keep doing what I am doing. It is for them and for the future that I want to give them. A future of freedom.

John that is why I am writing to you today. I need your help to make sure I can keep conducting these crucial investigations and so together, we can help those being held captive against their will.

I am asking you to join us today as a Freedom Champion for animals, ([link removed]) by making a monthly donation. Your monthly gift will make sure we can continue to go undercover, and gather the evidence we need to help animals.

Your donations ([link removed]) could fund travel costs, equipment costs, tickets, accommodation, cameras, reporting, video production, outreach… and everything else fundamental to a successful investigation.

Now with lockdown easing and businesses opening up, I can once again get out to visit zoos, aquariums, mobile zoos and other animal-exploiting businesses. But I need your help to make this happen.

So please, join me today ([link removed]) and let’s help animals who desperately need us.

Thank you,
Rachel Smith*
*name changed to protect identity.

P.S. Doing this job has strengthened my belief that keeping wild animals captive is horrendously cruel and deeply unethical. Join me in the fight to end cruel captivity, by becoming a Freedom Champion ([link removed] ) . Thank you.

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